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[Symphonic Addict]

Jones: String Quartet No. 5

My goodness... these quartets are mini-masterpieces. Jones is succinct, eloquent, rigurous. Yet another quartet corpus worth each one of them.

[Daverz]

NP:

Chávez
Piano Concerto
Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México
Enrique Arturo Diemecke

From this OOP recording -



Great stuff! This recording is particularly noteworthy in that the Violin Concerto is performed here as well. Both of these concerti from Chávez have not been recorded but only a few times, especially the PC, which has two recordings on CD (and a few others on LP that have never been reissued on CD).

There was an excellent recording of the Violin Concerto by Szeryng:



https://www.discogs.com/release/8167978-Carlos-Ch%C3%A1vez-Henryk-Szeryng-Orquesta-Sinf%C3%B3nica-Nacional-De-M%C3%A9xico-Ch%C3%A1vez-Violin-Concerto-Ch%C3%A1ve

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There was an excellent recording of the Violin Concerto by Szeryng:



https://www.discogs.com/release/8167978-Carlos-Ch%C3%A1vez-Henryk-Szeryng-Orquesta-Sinf%C3%B3nica-Nacional-De-M%C3%A9xico-Ch%C3%A1vez-Violin-Concerto-Ch%C3%A1ve

Yep, but it was never issued on CD, unfortunately.

[Symphonic Addict]

Brahms: String Quintet No. 1

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And now I reach the end of Isang Yun box set on Camerata:

Symphonies No. 2
Bavarian RSO
Georg Schmöhe

Symphony No. 4
Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra
Hiroyuki Iwaki

[Operafreak]

Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 Nos. 1-21 Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer

[JBS]

[Symphonic Addict]

Bate: Viola Concerto

If you're into Vaughan Williams, you'll find this fine concerto a nice revelation. There is a reference to VW's Sixth Symphony (the Dantesque II) in the 4th mov.





Hahn: Concerto provençal

Eminently pleasant in the very meaning of the word. Music to relax and let you take a breath. Sous les pins was especially evocative.

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Hahn: Concerto provençal

Eminently pleasant in the very meaning of the word. Music to relax and let you take a breath. Sous les pins was especially evocative.

This entire recording is wonderful, Cesar.

Last work of the night:

Suk
Under The Apple-Tree, Suite from the music to the dramatic legend by Julius Zeyer, Op. 20
Eva Děpoltová, soprano
Czech Philharmonic
Libor Pešek

[Daverz]

NP:

Chávez
Piano Concerto
Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México
Enrique Arturo Diemecke

From this OOP recording -



Great stuff! This recording is particularly noteworthy in that the Violin Concerto is performed here as well.

Found it.  Search term "Chávez: Violín Concerto - La Fonoteca de Iberoamérica". 

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Found it.  Search term "Chávez: Violín Concerto - La Fonoteca de Iberoamérica".

Unfortunately, my disc has a glitch in it (I bought it used, but the CD's playing side looks pristine). I do have this recording of the PC (also with Osorio):

[vandermolen]

Bate: Viola Concerto

If you're into Vaughan Williams, you'll find this fine concerto a nice revelation. There is a reference to VW's Sixth Symphony (the Dantesque II) in the 4th mov.





Hahn: Concerto provençal

Eminently pleasant in the very meaning of the word. Music to relax and let you take a breath. Sous les pins was especially evocative.

+1 for Bate - a wonderful work.

NP
Peterson-Berger: Symphony No.2 - some lyrical early morning listening:

[Madiel]

Act Three.



The libretto of this Act got revised quite a bit. But in both versions, the King is an utter jerk. Yes, threatening to have someone executed is such a funny joke, isn't it. 

[Que]

Morning listening - 3rd and last disc of this set by Jacobus Handl-Gallus:

   


https://open.spotify.com/album/6xd0PqzhhRYGLx65xJsvas

[Que]

On Spotify:

[Tsaraslondon]

Some may find Kaufmann's approach a litte too operatic, I suppose, but for the most part he reins in his full dramatic tenor and this is a sensitive, well thought out intepretation of Schubert's endlessly fascinating song cycle. His diction is well nigh perfect and he is given excellent support from Helmut Deutsch on the piano.

[vandermolen]

[Tsaraslondon]

This edition of the famous Schwarzkopf/Fischer 1950 Schubert recital adds Fischer's 1952 recording of Schubert's 6 Moments musicaux, D780.

The voice itself is unfailingly lovely throughout, the emotional range, from joyful happiness (Im Frühling, Der Musensohn) to horror (Gretchen am Spinnrade, Die junge Nonne) wide, though in later life Schwarzkopf herself would find the drama of Gretchen too operatic (I don't agree). Fischer's accompaniments are superb throughout. I particularly like the rippling effect he achieves in Auf dem Wasser zu singen, which gives the impression of moonlight gleaming on the water, but this is just one of many similar revelations. This is a classic recital and I simply cannot understand the charges of over-interpretation and mannerism that are sometimes leveled at Schwarzkopf, at least not here.

It is also good to have Fischer's wonderful Moments musicaux as a makeweight.

[foxandpeng]

Alfred Schnittke
Cello Concertos 1 & 2
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concertos 1 & 2
Ivashkin/Polyansky
Russian SSO
Moscow SO

Early morning sorties into contrasting Russian Cello Concertos, as a change from Rautavaara's distinctive sound world. All outstanding pieces in different ways, and a welcome return to the Schnittke in anticipation of exploring more of his music. I remember being captivated by the Schnittke CC #1 last year and it is no less fascinating this morning.

[Harry]

Johann Christian Bach.

The Berlin Harpsichord Concertos, Volume II.

E major, F minor, G major.

Anthony Halstead, Direction and Harpsichord.
The Hanover Band.